![Carl Bantzer](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Carl_Bantzer.jpg)
Carl Ludwig Noah Bantzer (6 August 1857,
Ziegenhain
Ziegenhain is a municipality in the district of Altenkirchen, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It used to be part of the mayoralty of Weyerbusch
In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as th ...
– 19 December 1941,
Marburg
Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximate ...
) was a painter, professor and art critic; associated with the .
Biography
He was born to Heinrich Bantzer (1809–1863), a
veterinarian
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. After his father's death, his mother moved the family to Marburg, where he attended the prestigious
Gymnasium Philippinum
Gymnasium Philippinum or Philippinum High School is an almost 500-year-old secondary school in Marburg, Hesse, Germany.
History
The Gymnasium Philippinum was founded in 1527 as a Protestant school based at the same time with the University of ...
. Later, he studied at the
Academy of Arts, Berlin
The Academy of Arts (german: Akademie der Künste) is a state arts institution in Berlin, Germany. The task of the Academy is to promote art, as well as to advise and support the states of Germany.
The Academy's predecessor organization was fo ...
. In 1884 and 1885 he was in
Schwalm, where he worked with the painter , from Dresden. He also spent time in
Treysa
Treysa, an independent town until 1970, is the biggest ''Stadtteil'' of the German town Schwalmstadt. It was incorporated into Schwalmstadt in December 1970. The location around Treysa and Schwalmstadt is called Schwalm. The historic city lies ...
, painting portraits of local notables and people in traditional costume.
![Carl Bantzer - Abendmahlsfeier in Hessen (1892)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Carl_Bantzer_-_Abendmahlsfeier_in_Hessen_%281892%29.jpg)
His first wife, Claire, died in 1887, giving birth to their son Arnold. After her death, he went to
Willingshausen
Willingshausen is a municipality in the Schwalm-Eder district in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Location
The community of Willingshausen lies in the Schwalm area.
Neighbouring communities
Willingshausen borders in the north on the town of Schwalmstad ...
, where he befriended the artists
Hermann Kätelhön and . He would return there every summer for many years. In 1890, he stayed in Paris for several months. The following year, he was in Dresden.
In 1893, he went on an extended study trip with , visiting spas throughout central Germany, including
Heilbad Heiligenstadt
Heilbad Heiligenstadt is a spa town in Thuringia, Germany. It is the capital of the Eichsfeld district.
Geography
Heiligenstadt is approximately 14 km east of the tripoint where the states of Thuringia, Hesse and Lower Saxony meet. It lies ...
,
Bad Sooden-Allendorf
Bad Sooden-Allendorf is a spa town in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Location
The spa town of Bad Sooden-Allendorf lies in the Werra valley near the Hoher Meißner, right on the boundary with Thuringia, almost at Germany's ...
and
Bad Hersfeld
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, as well as
Schlitz,
Aufenau,
Kinzig and
Vogelsberg
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Emerging approximately 19 million years ago, the Vogelsberg is Central Europe's larges ...
. Having failed to find any suitable models for his work, he returned to Willingshausen. In 1896, he had an old wooden church disassembled and reconstructed in Marburg, to use as a studio. That same year, he was appointed a Professor at the
Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (German ''Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden''), often abbreviated HfBK Dresden or simply HfBK, is a vocational university of visual arts located in Dresden, Germany. The present institution is the product o ...
.
He remarried in 1899, to Helene Francis Darbishire (1874–1953). This marriage produced five children, including , an illustrator of children's books who married the cartoonist known as
E. O. Plauen, and Carl Francis Bantzer (1900-1945), who also became a painter. Carl Francis, in turn, was the father of the actor,
Christoph Bantzer
Christoph Bantzer (born 4 January 1936 in Marburg) is a German television actor.
His younger brother Claus Bantzer is a composer and musician.
Life and work
Christoph Bantzer born on 4 January 1936 in Marburg in a family of artists (both father ...
, and the musician,
Claus Bantzer
Claus Bantzer (born 10 October 1942 in Marburg) is a German church musician, composer and director.
Life and work
Claus Bantzer was born in Marburg in 1942 into an artist's family. His older brother Christoph Bantzer is an actor.
Bantzer be ...
.
From 1903, he was a member of the
Deutscher Künstlerbund
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In 1904, he participated in their first join exhibition with the
Munich Secession
The Munich Secession was an association of visual artists who broke away from the mainstream Munich Artists' Association in 1892, to promote and defend their art in the face of what they considered official paternalism and its conservative polic ...
at the
Staatliche Antikensammlungen
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. In 1909,
Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist who was born in Hanover, Germany.
Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, pain ...
became one of his students.
In 1918, he was appointed Director of the
Kunsthochschule Kassel
Kunsthochschule Kassel (German; "Kassel College of Art") is a college of fine arts in Kassel, Germany. Founded in 1777, it is a semi-autonomous department of the University of Kassel .
Notable people
* Daniel Stieglitz
* Peter Angermann
* Si ...
, a position he held until 1923. He was awarded the
Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft
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in 1937. At that time, the awards were personally chosen by
Hitler
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Two years later, he was a candidate for the
German National Prize for Art and Science
Through statutes of 30 January 1937, the German National Order for Art and Science (german: Der Deutscher Nationalorden für Kunst und Wissenschaft) was an award created by Adolf Hitler as a replacement for the Nobel Prize (he had forbidden German ...
.
''R 55/1017 Nationalpreis für Kunst und Wissenschaft 1939. Vorschläge für Preisträger''
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. He paid his last visit to Willingshausen just before his death, in 1941.
A school in Ziegenhain bears his name. In 2015, a statue of him, created by , was erected in the schoolyard.
References
Further reading
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* "Carl Bantzer, der dt. Maler". In: ''Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte'' #40, 1925/1926.
* Andreas Bantzer: ''Carl Bantzer, ein Leben in Briefen.'' Vereinigung Malerstübchen Willingshausen, 1998, .
* Hellmuth Heinz: ''Carl Bantzer (Maler und Werk).'' Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1981.
External links
More works by Bantzer
@ ArtNet
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1857 births
1941 deaths
19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German genre painters
German landscape painters
Academic staff of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
People from Schwalmstadt
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists